WaniKani Knowledge

Reviews

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The Reviews widget allows you to do your Reviews. It shows you a count of how many items are in your Reviews pile, and has a single button that you click to do your Reviews.

Priority Reviews

You can customize your Reviews widget to display the number of “priority” Reviews.

When turned on, you will see two counts in the widget. The first count represents the total number of items in your Reviews pile, and the second represents the total number of all Apprentice stage items available in your Reviews pile. For those of us with limited time, who need to carve out time in a day to get our Review piles done, this feature should be helpful as it will better allow you to choose how to spend the time that you do have.

If you have the time to regularly do your Reviews (i.e. a few times a day) then you probably don’t need to turn this on.

Reviews Completed

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The Reviews Completed widget displays how many reviews you have done in a given period as well as the previous period.

There are seven periods you can choose from:

Today

The twenty-four hour period in the current day.

Past 7 Days

The past seven days, including the current day.

This Month

The current calendar month, e.g. March 1987.

Past 28 Days

The last twenty-eight days, including the current day.

This Year

The current calendar year, e.g. 2046.

Past 365 Days

The past 365 days, including the current day.

All Time

All days beginning from account creation.

To add this widget, choose a period and a theme, and click the “Add Widget” button.

You can only choose one period to view per widget. To view multiple Reviews Completed periods on your dashboard, you must add multiple widgets.

How these widgets motivate you depends on your goals. Maybe you want to outpace your previous day, week, month, or year. Maybe you want to make sure you’re consistent week to week. Or maybe you see you’re blazing past your previous record and decide to slow down.

Whatever your goals, use these widgets to judge your progress and make decisions!

Item Spread

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The Item Spread widget shows you how many items from each SRS category are currently in your Reviews queue. This gives you a clear picture of where your workload sits within the SRS stages and helps you manage your study pace effectively.

You can choose between Table or Graph views. The graph shows individual SRS stages while the table shows data aggregated by the named SRS categories (apprentice, guru, master, enlightened, and burned).

Table View

The Table view shows the total count of items in each SRS category and further breaks this count down by item type (radical, kanji, and vocabulary).

When the widget does not have enough room to display the radical, kanji, and vocabulary counts, you can still access these by clicking on the appropriate row.

Graph View

In Graph view, hovering over any bar reveals the total number of items in that SRS level. For a further breakdown by item type, click on Details in the top-right corner. Note that Graph View does not display Burned items, as its purpose is to help you quickly decide whether to take on more lessons.

To maintain a steady pace of reviews, it’s best to keep your apprentice item count consistent. If your apprentice count rises higher than usual, consider pausing Lessons until you return to a number you’re comfortable with. By keeping an eye on your Item Spread, you can balance your workload, avoid Reviews overload, and make more informed decisions about when to study new material.

Heat Map

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The Heat Map widget gives you a bird’s-eye view of your study progress. Each day you study is represented by a small box, and the color’s intensity within the box shows how much you accomplished. The darker the color, the more reviews and lessons you completed. This makes it easy to spot at a glance how consistent you’ve been over time and notice patterns in your learning habits.

You can choose to either view your monthly or annual progress.

When there is not enough space to display the column titles, the text for days and months will be abbreviated:

Four color themes are also available for you to customize the widget. Note that in the annual view, “past year” means the last 365 days, not the previous calendar year.

At the bottom of the widget, you’ll see totals for reviews and lessons completed during the selected time period. Hovering over any box shows you the exact numbers for that day, and clicking a box locks that day’s data in place for easy reference.

In the annual view, click on a month at the top of the chart to lock in the data for that entire month. Click on the locked month or box again if you want to unlock it and go back to hovering for data.

To navigate through the different time periods, click on either the arrows or the date in the top-right corner, and choose from the available options.

By checking your Heat Map regularly, you get to keep track of your accomplishments and potentially uncover learning patterns you might not have noticed before.

How to Customize the Dashboard

2025-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

To customize the dashboard, click on your profile icon in the upper-right corner to reveal the dropdown menu, and then click on “Customize Dashboard.”

From here you’ll have a few different options.

Layout

The “Layout” button on the upper-left corner of the widget group window lets you change the appearance and how widgets are arranged in the selected group, as well as add new groups.

Add Above / Add Below

These two buttons add a blank group either above or below the group you have currently selected. Once the blank group is added, you can begin adding widgets to it.

This determines how many widgets you can add to a group as well as how they’ll be laid out. You can have up to three widgets in a single group, two widgets of varying or equal sizes, or one widget that spans the width of the whole group. The world is your oyster when it comes to how you want each group on your dashboard to look!

Just keep in mind that if, for example, you have widgets already added to a group, and you want to go down in size from a three-widget layout to a two-widget layout, you will need to remove at least one widget before the layout can be changed.

Clicking on “Add Widget” will bring up the list of widgets you can add to the currently selected group.

If you click on “Widget List” at the top of the window, you can quickly find a specific widget. If you want to know what each widget does, you can read about every widget here.

Remove Widgets and Groups

The “Remove 🗑️” icon in the upper-right corner of each group will remove that group and all of the widgets within them.

The “Remove 🗑️” icon on the upper-right corner of the widgets will only delete that specific widget.

Arranging Widgets and Groups

Clicking and dragging the six horizontal dots in the upper-left corner of the widget window will let you rearrange the position of the widgets to your liking. You can also move it outside of the current widget group to switch with another widget.

Similarly, clicking and dragging the six vertical dots in the upper-left of the widget group window will let you move an entire group of widgets up or down your dashboard.

Restore to Default

The “Restore to Default” button located at the top of the page in the upper-right corner will reset your dashboard back to the standard layout we created! You can see that standard layout below.

Item Lists

2025-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

The Item Lists widget is a handy way to see radicals, kanji, or vocabulary you’ve recently burned or unlocked (i.e., within the last 30 days) or items that are in critical condition. Items are moved to critical condition when you answer their reviews correctly less than 75% of the time.

The widget can only show one of these categories at a single time, but you can add as many versions of the widget as you like to cover all categories.

Since this widget is meant to give you a quick overview, only ten items will show on the dashboard widget. For burned and unlocked items, they’ll be ordered from most recently to least recently burned or unlocked. For critical condition items, they’ll be ordered from most critical to least critical, i.e. items with the lowest correct percentage to the highest correct percentage below the 75% threshold.

To see more than the top ten items in each category as well as more information like the burned and unlocked date for those items or the exact review percentage for critical condition items, you can click the “Show All” button to see something like the following:

If you have no items to show in these areas, you’ll see a special illustration instead! This is also where the color theme you chose will apply.

Recent Mistakes

2025-09-08T00:00:00+00:00

The Recent Mistakes widget is perfect for revisiting those “oops!” moments from your last Reviews session. Got a few questions wrong? Happens to the best of us! When you add this widget to your dashboard, all your recent mistakes are gathered in one place. That makes it easy for you to check out the missed subjects, practice their answers, or even redo entire lessons.

The goal of reviewing Recent Mistakes is to catch your mistakes within twenty-four hours, which makes you much more likely to remember them in future Reviews. After twenty-four hours, the items will disappear, so you’ll want to make sure to check them within that time window. It’s geared toward quick reinforcement, rather than last minute cramming.

Under your customization settings, you can display the widget in one of two modes: “Item List” or “Flashcard” style. In Item List mode, all your recent mistakes are lined up at the bottom, with your biggest troublemakers at the front so you know exactly where to focus.

This widget comes with two handy features: Extra Study for targeted practice and Redo Lessons for a full refresh.

In Flashcard mode, one mistake appears at a time, showing just the character. Here we have the 大 kanji:

The lower section is blurred out for you to try to think of the answer on your own. Once you’ve thought it over, you can click the card to reveal the answer to see if you were correct. Click the card again to review the next mistake.

You can use keyboard shortcuts after clicking the flashcard widget to navigate through items. Our wasd navigation works like this: a goes to the previous card, d goes to the next card, and s shows the meaning and reading on the current card.

When you’ve gone through all of your available flashcards, you have the option to restart them or quiz them again with ‘Extra Study’:

You can also access Recent Mistakes through the Extra Study widget, which will give you two more variants.

The best way to use this widget is to check on it after each Reviews session. After looking at items you missed, try recalling the answers on your own, then use Extra Study or Redo Lessons if you need a little boost. Spending just a few minutes here can make a big difference over time, helping you turn those red answers into green ones.

Correct Percentage

2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

The Correct Percentage widget will show you the percentage of reviews you’ve gotten correct over any given time period. The goal of the widget is to get you inside what we call The Learning Zone.

You’re in The Learning Zone when you’re getting 85-95% of your reviews correct. This means you’re challenging yourself just enough for optimal learning.

We consider above 95% outside The Learning Zone for most people because it means you could take on more lessons to stretch your memory.

Sometimes, especially when you’re first starting out on WaniKani, you’ll find doing all your available lessons still puts you above 95% and outside The Learning Zone. That’s okay too! It doesn’t mean you’re not learning Japanese, but as you continue to learn more Japanese and more complex concepts, we want you to remember that it’s okay to get things wrong sometimes. Sometimes failure is the best way to learn.

Likewise, if you’re below 85%, we also consider you outside The Learning Zone.

Learning a new language is very difficult, so use this as a sign to slow down. Maybe scale back on your lessons so your brain doesn’t have so much to memorize all at once, or maybe take more time during Reviews. Practice recognizing each kanji for what it is, use our mnemonics to help you remember the reading and meaning, and don’t forget to try the Extra Study widget!

It’s also important to remember this percentage will change over time. Sometimes you’ll have a great day but a bad month or vice versa. Just because you’re outside The Learning Zone doesn’t mean you’re not learning Japanese. Rather, this widget is meant to help you reflect on your study methods and how effective they are for you.

Like some of our other customizable widgets, it can only display one time period at a time, but you can add multiple widgets simultaneously to see different periods at once. This can be helpful if you want to see your weekly performance over your monthly performance, for example. Whichever period you pick for the widget will reflect in the “Previous Period” percentage as well.

Community Banner

2025-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

The Community Banner widget links to the WaniKani Forums where you can hang out with your fellow ~~Crabigator Cult members~~ Japanese learners! Share your progress with a study journal, participate in book clubs, talk about your interests, or just lurk around!

Days Studied

2025-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

The Days Studied widget shows the total number of days you’ve done at least one lesson or one review on WaniKani since you’ve created your account. You can customize the color of the “void” or the color scheme of the intrepid Crabigator Cult follower and their spaceship when you add this widget to your dashboard.

This widget can be used to remind yourself how much time you’ve put into studying. You can take a moment to think back on all those days and days, how they have built into a mountain of knowledge now swimming and sparking through your body. Langauge learning is cumulative, and this ever-growing number is a reminder of the stores of interconnected points of information you’ve amassed.

We’re not exactly sure what happens once it hits 10,000 days, but the Crabigator may just bless you with a prize (maybe).

(And what are you doing spending 10,000 days on WaniKani? Get out there, and use what you’ve learned!)

WaniKani Knowledge

Reviews

Priority Reviews

Reviews Completed

Today

Past 7 Days

This Month

Past 28 Days

This Year

Past 365 Days

All Time

Item Spread

Table View

Graph View

Heat Map

How to Customize the Dashboard

Layout

Add Above / Add Below

Widget Group Layout

Add Widget

Remove Widgets and Groups

Arranging Widgets and Groups

Restore to Default

Item Lists

Recent Mistakes

Correct Percentage

Community Banner

Days Studied